What is "cinches"

Usage examples of "cinches".

And is that why you and Spink both do that little finger-wavy, charm thing over your cinches each time you go to mount your horses?

With quick motions he undid both front and rear cinches and lifted the saddle off the gelding.

Once she fastened both cinches, she looked at her left hand—there was only the faintest thread of a white line there—if that.

Once she fastened both cinches, she looked at her left handthere was only the faintest thread of a white line thereif that.

Swiftly the blankets went on, swiftly the saddles swung up, swiftly the cinches snapped.

They watered the horses and loosed the cinches to let them blow and then took the road south such road as it was, riding single file through the dust.

He lifted the blanket and placed it on the animal's back and smoothed it and stood stroking the animal and talking to it and then he bent and picked up the saddle and lifted it with the cinches strapped up and the off stirrup hung over the horn and sat it on the horse's back and rocked it into place.

He thought she might overtake him that they could change the horses back again but she did not and in the red twilight he led the black horse past Armando's house afoot and took it to the stable behind the house and removed the bridle and loosed the cinches and left it standing in the bay saddled and tied with a rope halter to the hitchingrail.

The mare sidestepped away as he tried to tighten the cinches, and he cursed her luridly, not bothering to apologize to Victoria for his language.

Jake just kept at the task until he had the cinches as tight as he wanted.

Wardrop felt his left stirrup go, sliced cleanly away just inside his leg, and now only the foremost of the three special cinches held his saddle.

Those two loose cinches now flailed about beneath the mare, frightening her.

No lost horseshoes, broken cinches, bandits, snow storms, or anything worth talking about.

Finally, Mikhail had the saddle on the horse's back, and he began to work the unfamiliar cinches and straps.

In the dusty attic, he rolls his bedding and cinches it tightly, and packs his gear into the saddlebags.